no penguins in your game, okay? A nice Mech game would be good...
[in a voice similar to Mr. Burns, but with a touch more mad scientist] Yesss.... a nice Penguin mech game...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Jake was excellent in both Moonlight Mile and October Sky, but to say he is a thousand times the actor of Maguire suggests that maybe you haven't seen Ride with the Devil, The Cider House Rules, The Wonder Boys, and Pleasantville. Especially in Wonder Boys and Ride with the Devil, Maguire shows that the difference between Jake and himself is much narrower than you suggest.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I was pretty sure of that, it was enough of a cheap shot that I knew he wouldn't be able to articulate it without looking like a jerk. (Oh well, he was smart enough not to bite)
Anyway, it's more fun than moderation when they do it to themselves.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
From ESR document: The truth is otherwise. SCO never had significant enterprise market share either before or after its purchase of the Unix source code from Novell. Examination of SCO's 10Ks reveals that, even were we to assume that every dime of their revenue came from the enterprise market, their 2002 share could not have exceeded 3.1% [4] This is at the level of statistical noise.
Your Honor, this is known as the SCO Uncertainty Principle (it as also known as Schroedinger's sales figures). SCO may have actually made sales of their Unix in the enterprise market, we aren't really sure. What we may have here is the sales equivalent of artifact. We'll give them 3.1% and call it generous.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
(insert cheesy melodramatic music) In the interest of international security and a reduction in terrorism, I think the MPAA and Microsoft need to step up and give the world freedom to copy their work... (a single tear rolls down my cheek) Do it for the children. Do it for the world. Do it, because it's the right thing to do...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
Now that's definitely possible. I'll go in for human frailty almost any day of the week. Then again, at some point along the chain it may have passed through non-sensitive hands (i.e. a semi-public figure occasionally has packages dropped off on his doorstep, and he then delivers them to Al-Jeerza and also sells it to the U.S. beacause, hey Bin Laden wants his message to get out too, right...)
Who knows? I just don't think it necessarily meant that we knew Osama's location.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
The fact that we intercept all sorts of communications is well known. The fact that we have sources who will pony up info for cash is well known. The possibility that we ended up with a transcript of a tape before a TV station knew about it, does not necessarily mean that we were aware of Osama bin Laden's location at any point. It just means that we intercepted it between Osama and the station.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
From SCO's document: 84. Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car. To make Linux of necessary quality for use by enterprise customers, it must be re-designed so that Linux also becomes the software equivalent of a luxury car.
A bicycle??!? Ok, a free bicycle...that seats as many as a luxury car, on just as comfortable seats, and has the same horsepower as the luxury car, and that comes complete with design schematics and a suite of tools that allow you to build more "bicycles", oh and you can give them away to your friends.
Oh, and now nobody is really interested in luxury cars anymore... maybe that's that's what SCO is so mad about.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
I think I still have them. They were my first purchases from the science fiction book club when I was in the 9th or 10th grade. Let's see, that would be 90' or 91'. The SF book club also released them in the 3 book volume. I've read through "The Road to Ehvenor" (I hope I spelled that right, it's been a while since I've seen it.)
Thanks for reminding of Joel Rosenberg and his excellent novels. They are some of the best fantasy I have ever read. It's been far too long since I've read them.
By the way, there is always room for innovation in every aspect of everything. There was a time when Columbus must have said, What is there "innovations" can you put in English ships. They are the best in the land"
I think for the purposes of a discussion regarding product maturity, the term innovation needs to be defined.
if you mean "the process of content delivery within a audio/vidual medium" will be refined, and new formats of content will be added and conveniences for viewing the material (i.e. tabbed browsing) will be achieved, then I'll agree with you.
However with that definition, in ten years time, the main difference between browsers today and then will be content compatibility and a few usability differences.
I think what the original poster meant by application maturity is that the nature of the browser has been defined, we're just making it prettier/faster/easier to use. It joins the ranks of the toilet, the text editor, the bathtub, the calculator, the wheelbarrow, the spreadsheet, etc.
It's not that most people don't think they are cool, it's that most people don't use the web that way. All of my riends have thought tabs are very cool, and most of them have switched to Mozilla because they think it's cool, but almost none of them use them regularly if at all.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Where are warnings: "Avoid this like the plague"? Reviews shouldn't just be "This was very very very good and everyone should read it"...
That's only if you review everything, which Slashdot patently does not. I definitely expect Game magazines to rate more games as stinkers than perfect 10's, but then they are supposed to cover every game out there. Personally, I'd rather only read reviews about good things I hadn't heard of, unless it was something that was hyped beyond belief and then flopped (Episode I, maybe;)
Anyway, I will admit that some of the reviews are of substantially lower quality than this one, but then I have yet to receive an invoice from Slashdot, so I'm not complaining.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but bought with blood.
In the words of Weird Al Yankovich's "I lost on Jeopardy", I was tense, I was nervous, as I read the slashdot article. Has Google become...gulp...evil? Have they stepped over the line??
But then I read the cease and desist letter.
While they may yet prove to be evil, all it looks like so far, is that they are trying to protect their trademark. No more, no less. Whether this is late in the game to be doing so, I don't know. But so far, it doesn't sound too bad. It's worth keeping an eye on though.
I was usually the DM, so it was my job to set the tone for how much of that junk I would put up with, but still, it was fun sometimes to be questioned or to be able to question. I usually play more on the story side as a DM and ignore some of the rules to keep things moving quickly, hence the questions of "He did what?? How?!?"
Out of curiosity, those of you who have played all three and a half revisions of D&D, which one did you like the most?
Third edition has been my favorite by far. Though 2nd edition kind of felt more "nerdy" just because of their arcane rules and complex resolutions for certain situations. We've had much less arguing with "God" with the new rules, but there was something fun about that...it made you feel like you had some say in the universe. ("That troll could never jump that far. You said he was twice as big as all the other trolls. What system are you using for determining jump distance, what's his strength, weight?, etc...)
Of course I came from a background of playing and loving Rolemaster, which 3rd edition is very similiar to in many ways (semi open-ended roles, more openness on class choice, skill level aquisition, opposed rolls, etc...) I also tend to love systems that let me play around with a million options so I can have the non-typical character (troll druids, gnomish beserker mages, elven necromancers who resurrect dead trees to fight for them, etc.)
Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several twelve-step programs, but not a licensed therapist. His show "Daily Affirmations" is on a cable access channel.
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Here's a few more:
Age of Geeks
Balmer's Gates
Ballmer's Gates II: Shadows of Redmond
(Eris S.) Rayman
Solid Snack: Sons of Lethargy
no penguins in your game, okay?
A nice Mech game would be good...
[in a voice similar to Mr. Burns, but with a touch more mad scientist]
Yesss.... a nice Penguin mech game...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Jake was excellent in both Moonlight Mile and October Sky, but to say he is a thousand times the actor of Maguire suggests that maybe you haven't seen Ride with the Devil, The Cider House Rules, The Wonder Boys, and Pleasantville. Especially in Wonder Boys and Ride with the Devil, Maguire shows that the difference between Jake and himself is much narrower than you suggest.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I was pretty sure of that, it was enough of a cheap shot that I knew he wouldn't be able to articulate it without looking like a jerk. (Oh well, he was smart enough not to bite)
Anyway, it's more fun than moderation when they do it to themselves.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
From ESR document: The truth is otherwise. SCO never had significant enterprise market share either before or after its purchase of the Unix source code from Novell. Examination of SCO's 10Ks reveals that, even were we to assume that every dime of their revenue came from the enterprise market, their 2002 share could not have exceeded 3.1% [4] This is at the level of statistical noise.
Your Honor, this is known as the SCO Uncertainty Principle (it as also known as Schroedinger's sales figures). SCO may have actually made sales of their Unix in the enterprise market, we aren't really sure. What we may have here is the sales equivalent of artifact. We'll give them 3.1% and call it generous.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
(insert cheesy melodramatic music)
In the interest of international security and a reduction in terrorism, I think the MPAA and Microsoft need to step up and give the world freedom to copy their work...
(a single tear rolls down my cheek)
Do it for the children.
Do it for the world.
Do it, because it's the right thing to do...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
and with that remarks your whole post lost it's credibility.
For the sake of clarification, would you mind explaining what you mean by that?
Now that's definitely possible. I'll go in for human frailty almost any day of the week. Then again, at some point along the chain it may have passed through non-sensitive hands (i.e. a semi-public figure occasionally has packages dropped off on his doorstep, and he then delivers them to Al-Jeerza and also sells it to the U.S. beacause, hey Bin Laden wants his message to get out too, right...)
Who knows? I just don't think it necessarily meant that we knew Osama's location.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
The fact that we intercept all sorts of communications is well known. The fact that we have sources who will pony up info for cash is well known. The possibility that we ended up with a transcript of a tape before a TV station knew about it, does not necessarily mean that we were aware of Osama bin Laden's location at any point. It just means that we intercepted it between Osama and the station.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
From SCO's document: 84. Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car. To make Linux of necessary quality for use by enterprise customers, it must be re-designed so that Linux also becomes the software equivalent of a luxury car.
A bicycle??!? Ok, a free bicycle...that seats as many as a luxury car, on just as comfortable seats, and has the same horsepower as the luxury car, and that comes complete with design schematics and a suite of tools that allow you to build more "bicycles", oh and you can give them away to your friends.
Oh, and now nobody is really interested in luxury cars anymore... maybe that's that's what SCO is so mad about.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but loved and bought with blood.
for once a security problem that isn't really Microsoft's fault.
What!! On Slashdot!! a story that absolves Microsoft of guilt when blind-eyed finger pointing would have been so easy...
Who are you and what have you done with the slashdot editors?!?
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Dilbert - "If aliens take over your boss's body, is that a bad thing?"
Wally - "It depends on the aliens"
Thanks.
I think I still have them. They were my first purchases from the science fiction book club when I was in the 9th or 10th grade. Let's see, that would be 90' or 91'. The SF book club also released them in the 3 book volume. I've read through "The Road to Ehvenor" (I hope I spelled that right, it's been a while since I've seen it.)
Has anyone read any of his later works?
Thanks for reminding of Joel Rosenberg and his excellent novels. They are some of the best fantasy I have ever read. It's been far too long since I've read them.
By the way, there is always room for innovation in every aspect of everything. There was a time when Columbus must have said, What is there "innovations" can you put in English ships. They are the best in the land"
I think for the purposes of a discussion regarding product maturity, the term innovation needs to be defined.
if you mean "the process of content delivery within a audio/vidual medium" will be refined, and new formats of content will be added and conveniences for viewing the material (i.e. tabbed browsing) will be achieved, then I'll agree with you.
However with that definition, in ten years time, the main difference between browsers today and then will be content compatibility and a few usability differences.
I think what the original poster meant by application maturity is that the nature of the browser has been defined, we're just making it prettier/faster/easier to use. It joins the ranks of the toilet, the text editor, the bathtub, the calculator, the wheelbarrow, the spreadsheet, etc.
It's not that most people don't think they are cool, it's that most people don't use the web that way. All of my riends have thought tabs are very cool, and most of them have switched to Mozilla because they think it's cool, but almost none of them use them regularly if at all.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross
that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Where are warnings: "Avoid this like the plague"? Reviews shouldn't just be "This was very very very good and everyone should read it"...
;)
That's only if you review everything, which Slashdot patently does not. I definitely expect Game magazines to rate more games as stinkers than perfect 10's, but then they are supposed to cover every game out there. Personally, I'd rather only read reviews about good things I hadn't heard of, unless it was something that was hyped beyond belief and then flopped (Episode I, maybe
Anyway, I will admit that some of the reviews are of substantially lower quality than this one, but then I have yet to receive an invoice from Slashdot, so I'm not complaining.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemnded, but bought with blood.
If your mom always said, a PB&J is better than nothing, and God is nothing, is a PB&J better than God?
If
This is the t68i replacement and its supposed to improve on it in every aspect. It has a 16bit color screen
Am I the only one who tried figuring out what the heck t68i and 16bit were in script-kiddish before my brain took back over...
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Some days it's not even worth uploading my consciousness
Just wanted you to know that yours is one of the funniest comments I have ever read.
In the words of Weird Al Yankovich's "I lost on Jeopardy", I was tense, I was nervous, as I read the slashdot article. Has Google become...gulp... evil ? Have they stepped over the line??
But then I read the cease and desist letter.
While they may yet prove to be evil, all it looks like so far, is that they are trying to protect their trademark. No more, no less. Whether this is late in the game to be doing so, I don't know. But so far, it doesn't sound too bad. It's worth keeping an eye on though.
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Kleenex says "Bless you"
We have a name for people like you.....
"Rules Lawyers"
I was usually the DM, so it was my job to set the tone for how much of that junk I would put up with, but still, it was fun sometimes to be questioned or to be able to question.
I usually play more on the story side as a DM and ignore some of the rules to keep things moving quickly, hence the questions of "He did what?? How?!?"
Out of curiosity, those of you who have played all three and a half revisions of D&D, which one did you like the most?
Third edition has been my favorite by far. Though 2nd edition kind of felt more "nerdy" just because of their arcane rules and complex resolutions for certain situations.
We've had much less arguing with "God" with the new rules, but there was something fun about that...it made you feel like you had some say in the universe. ("That troll could never jump that far. You said he was twice as big as all the other trolls. What system are you using for determining jump distance, what's his strength, weight?, etc...)
Of course I came from a background of playing and loving Rolemaster, which 3rd edition is very similiar to in many ways (semi open-ended roles, more openness on class choice, skill level aquisition, opposed rolls, etc...) I also tend to love systems that let me play around with a million options so I can have the non-typical character (troll druids, gnomish beserker mages, elven necromancers who resurrect dead trees to fight for them, etc.)
Just my 2 cents.
First there was the Phantom Menace, then there was the Phantom Edit, now we have "phantom" transactions... coindidence? I think not.
George Lucas is involved here somwhere.
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I sense a great disturbance in the fiber, as if a million ATM transactions were suddenly silenced...
Stuart Smalley...is that you? ;)
Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several twelve-step programs, but not a licensed therapist. His show "Daily Affirmations" is on a cable access channel.
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Remember the slashdot motto: "Let everything be done in moderation"